Joy Keys Chats with Author Jeffrey Renard Allen About His Book Song of the Shank
Author Jeffrey Renard Allen chats with Joy Keys about his latest book dealing with a nineteenth-century African-American piano virtuoso.
Philadelphia, PA, September 26, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Date: Saturday, September 26th, 2015
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
URL: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys/2015/09/26/joy-keys-chats-with-author-jeffrey-renard-allen-about-song-of-shank
Call in number: 646-929-0368
Special Guest: Jeffrey Renard Allen. Born in Chicago, Allen holds a Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a faculty member in the writing program at the New School.
Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999), and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, and the story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008), which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
He is presently at work on a memoir-travelogue-meditation that uses his travels about the African continent to frame an exploration of subjects such as place, race, religion, music and culture, identity, and family.
In 2014, Graywolf Press published his novel Song of the Shank, which is based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century African-American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. http://www.jefferyrenardallen.com
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Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
URL: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys/2015/09/26/joy-keys-chats-with-author-jeffrey-renard-allen-about-song-of-shank
Call in number: 646-929-0368
Special Guest: Jeffrey Renard Allen. Born in Chicago, Allen holds a Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a faculty member in the writing program at the New School.
Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999), and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, and the story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008), which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.
He is presently at work on a memoir-travelogue-meditation that uses his travels about the African continent to frame an exploration of subjects such as place, race, religion, music and culture, identity, and family.
In 2014, Graywolf Press published his novel Song of the Shank, which is based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century African-American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. http://www.jefferyrenardallen.com
“Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys” is an interactive, live Internet talk-radio show that focuses on providing people with tools to enrich and advance their lives mentally, physically and emotionally. You can listen to archives of previous shows by going to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys.
Check out the podcasts with Journalist Soledad O’Brien, Actress Angela Bassett, Actress Kimberly Elise, Actor Blair Underwood, Singer Tyrese, Singer Ledisi, Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Singer Lira, Poet Rita Dove, Poet Sonia Sanchez, Author Isabel Wilkerson, Author Michelle Alexander, Former CBS Anchor Mark McEwen and Stroke, Singer Charlie Wilson and Prostate Cancer, Lupus, Breast Cancer, Celiac Disease and many more.
For more information about “Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys” call: 267-288-7386 or email: saturdayswithjoykeys (at) hotmail.com.
Become a fan on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/saturdaymorningswithjoykeys
Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joykeys.
Follow on Instagram: @saturdayswithjoykeys.
Download on iTunes.
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